Period 5 Timeline

By Lilmokkey7

  • Joseph Smith killed

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    California Gold Rush

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Kansas Nebraska act

  • Know nothing party formed

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    Bleeding Kansas

  • Dred Scott Case

  • Comstock Lode

  • Raid on Harpers ferry

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected

    In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination.

  • Ft. Sumpter attacked

  • 1st battle of bull run

    The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas (the name used by Confederate forces), was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War.

  • David Farragut captures new orleans

  • Homestead Act

  • Battle of Antietam

    first major bettle of thew civil war
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    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Fredericksburg

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    Battle of Gettysburg

  • Grant becomes commander of Army

  • Abraham's re election

  • Chivington Massacre

  • KKK act passed

  • 13th amendment ratified

    Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States

  • Lee surrenders to Grant

  • Veto of Freedmans Bureau

  • John Impeached

  • 14th amendment ratified

    On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"

  • Ft. laramie treaty

  • 15th Amendment ratified

    granted African American men the right to vote

  • Grant Elected

  • Battle of Little Big Horn

  • Hayes Tilden Election